what command in shell script for move a window to another desktop

tlinux17 · 05-16-2009, 05:33 PM

Hi, I am searching the commands for move a window program, like konqueror to another destop by script. May you help me?

TB0ne · 05-16-2009, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tlinux17

Hi, I am searching the commands for move a window program, like konqueror to another destop by script. May you help me?

Investigate the dbus functionality under KDE....lots of info on Google, that can tell you how to do all sorts of things with it..

tlinux17 · 05-17-2009, 12:53 AM

Thanks TBone, I am searching / learning about dbus.

i92guboj · 05-17-2009, 12:58 AM

Mind that's for kde4. If you still use 3.x the thing to look into is dcop.

This is valid only for the kde native wm, which is kwin. If you use compiz or any other wm (or you simply are not using kde) then this will not help. Other wm's might (only maybe) have a way to do this, or not at all. In gnome people use devilspie which is a standlone program to do advanced stuff with the windows since their wm can't do much.

tlinux17 · 05-17-2009, 01:14 AM

Thanks i92guboj, I am using yet kde 3.x, I shall search also for dcop.

i92guboj · 05-17-2009, 01:21 AM

Then it's dcop. I haven't kwin installed so I can't test for you. I am not sure either that it will provide the necessary calls to move a window from command line. But if there's a way it must be dcop.

tlinux17 · 05-25-2009, 11:47 AM

ok. I have found one solution for my problem.

I have found solution using the tool wmctrl.

I have installed it in fedora 8.10, with "yum install wmctrl"

This small example code move konqueror' window from the desktop number 1 to desktop number 4.

wmctrl -l | grep Konqueror | grep "0 localhost.localdomain" | wmctrl -t 3 -i -r $(cut -d " " -f1)

Thanks at all.
tlinux17

tlinux17 · 06-09-2009, 12:13 PM

I have found the second solution with dcop and kwin, this is the example:
dcop kwin KWinInterface setCurrentDesktop 3
3 is the choose desktop.

Thanks at all

tlinux17 · 06-14-2009, 12:11 PM

I have found the solution, what I searched with kstart command. for example:
kstart --desktop 2 konqueror
the command run konqueror in the virtual box number two.

Good bye

mike11 · 06-14-2009, 11:13 PM

check xdotool.